Resolution on Assurances adopted by U.N. Commission for India and Pakistan(UNCIP) 1948

This resolution was in the form of an assurance provided to India before the main U.N. Resolution of August 13, 1948, was to be implemented. The Resolution on Assurance said:-

1. Responsibility for the security of J&K
rests with Government of India.

2. The sovereignty of the J&K Government over
the entire territory of the State shall not be brought under question.

3. There shall be no recognition of the so-called
Azad (Free) Kashmir Government.

4. The territory occupied by Pakistan shall not be consolidated to the
disadvantage of the State of J&K.

5. The administration of the evacuated areas in the North shall revert
to the Government of J&K and its defence to the Government of India,
who will, if necessary, maintain garrison for preventing the incursion
oftribesmen and for guarding main trade routes.

6. Pakistan shall be excluded from all affairs of J&K in particular
in the plebiscite, of one should be held.

7. If a plebiscite is found to be impossible for technical or practical
reasons, the Commission will consider other methods of determining fair
and equitable conditions for ensuring a free expression of people's will.

8. Plebescite proposal shall not be binding upon India if Pakistan does
not implement Part I and II of the resolution of 13th August,
1948. (The resolution had called upon Pakistan to withdraw troops from
occupied Kashmir).

Note:The UNCIP could not make Pakistan accept these assurances with the result that the very basis of U.N. resolution of 13th August, 1948 collapsed.